Full Description
Within and Beyond Citizenship brings together cutting-edge research in sociology and social anthropology on the relationship between immigration status, rights and belonging in contemporary societies of immigration. It offers new insights into the ways in which political membership is experienced, spatially and bureaucratically constructed, and actively negotiated and contested in the everyday lives of citizens and non-citizens. Themes, concepts and ideas covered include:
The shifting position of the non-citizen in contemporary immigration societies;
The intersection of human mobility, immigration control and articulations of citizenship;
Activism and everyday practices of membership and belonging;
Tension in policy and practice between coexisting traditions and regimes of rights;
Mixed status families, belonging and citizenship;
The ways in which immigration status (or its absence) intersects with social cleavages such as age, class, gender and 'race' to shape social relations.
This book will appeal to academics and practitioners working in the disciplines of Social and Political Anthropology, Sociology, Social Policy, Human Geography, Political Sciences, Citizenship Studies and Migration Studies.
Contents
1. Mapping the Soft Borders of Citizenship: An Introduction, (Roberto G. Gonzales and Nando Sigona)
2. Citizenship's Shadow: Obscene Inclusion, Abject Belonging or the Regularities of Irregularity, (Nicholas De Genova)3. Spaces of Legal Ambiguity: Central American Immigrants, 'Street-level Workers', and Belonging, (Cecilia Menjívar) 4. Till Deportation Do Us Part: The Effect of U.S. Immigration Law on Mixed-status Couples' Experience of Citizenship, (Jane Lilly López)
5. Spaces of inclusion or exception? The Experience and Regulation of Citizenship in a Space of Irregular Il/legalities in Istanbul, (Kristen Biehl)
6. Citizenship Acts: Legality, Power and the Limits of Political Action, (Irene Bloemraad, Heidy Sarabia and Angela Fillingim)
7. Squatting as a Practice of Citizenship: The Experiences of Moroccan Immigrant Women in Rome, (Rosa Parisi)8. Voice Matters: Calling for Victimhood, Shared Humanity and Citizenry of Irregular Migrants in Norway, (Synnøve Bendixsen)9. Marching Beyond Borders: The Transnational Mobilization of Undocumented Immigrants in Europe, (Thomas Swerts) 10. Boundary Practices of Citizenship: Europe's Roma at the Securitization and Citizenship Nexus, (Huub van Baar)
11. The Unworthy Citizen: A Brief Commentary, (Bridget Anderson and Matthew Gibney)
